Beanie Babies Value

Champion Beanie Baby

Champion Animal Details

Name:

Champion

Animal:

Bear

Birthday:

none

Introduction Day:

April 4, 2002

Retirement Day:

Varies - see below

Poem:

Each swing tag contains information unique to the country represented by the bear. The Japan and Korea bears are available with one of two versions of swing tags, one in English or one in the country's native language. Ty produced 32 differentChampionBeanie Baby bears; one for each country entered in the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament in 2002. Each of the bears was retired on the day its country was eliminated from the competition. The tournament was hosted jointly by Japan and Korea. It was the first time this tournament was hosted by two countries. Brazil won the championship with a 2 - 0 win over Germany in the final game. FIFA is an acronym for F